History audiobooks

Daughter of Empire

By: Pamela Hicks

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who was Grace Kelly's pinup, and a grandmother who was not only a princess but could also argue the finer points of naval law. Pamela Mountbatten entered a remarkable family when she was born at the very end of the... Read more

One Simple Idea

By: Mitch Horowitz

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the millions-strong audiences of Oprah and The Secret to the mass-media ministries of evangelical figures like Joel Osteen and T. D. Jakes, to the motivational bestsellers and New Age seminars to the twelve-step programs and support groups of the recovery movement and to the rise of positive psychology and stress-reduction therapies, this... Read more

Tomorrow-Land

By: Joseph Tirella

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Motivated by the idea of turning Flushing Meadows, literally a land of refuse, into his greatest public park, Robert Moses—New York's "master builder"—brought the World's Fair to the Big Apple for 1964 and '65. Though considered a financial failure, the 1964/65 World's Fair was a sixties flash point in areas from politics to pop culture,... Read more

One Doctor

By: Brendan Reilly, MD

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic story told by a unique voice in Ameri­can medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physi­cian. In riveting first-person prose, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes us to the front lines of medicine today. Whipsawed by daily crises and frustra­tions, Reilly must deal with several daunting challenges... Read more

Stocks for the Long Run 5/E

By: Jeremy J. Siegel

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The stock-investing classic--UPDATED TO HELP YOU WIN IN TODAY'S CHAOTIC GLOBAL ECONOMY



Much has changed since the last edition of Stocks for the Long Run. The financial crisis, the deepest bear market since the Great Depression, and the continued growth of the emerging markets are just some of the contingencies directly affecting every portfolio... Read more

Our One Common Country

By: James B. Conroy

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Our One Common Country explores the most critical meeting of the Civil War. Given short shrift or overlooked by many historians, the Hampton Roads Conference of 1865 was a crucial turning point in the War between the States. In this well written and highly documented book, James B. Conroy describes in fascinating detail what happened when... Read more

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

By: John Naughton

Narrated by: Daniel Weyman

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and vice president of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said of his writing, "[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities it will offer to future generations," and Cory Doctorow raved that... Read more

In Search of America - Abridged

By: Peter Jennings & Tod Brewster

Narrated by: Peter Jennings

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster conceived IN SEARCH OF AMERICA long before the events of September 11th. But watching America respond to one of the worst attacks in its history deepened the meaning of this project. Now, more than ever, Americans need to treasure their way of life, and to reacquaint themselves with the founding ideas that... Read more

Ice Cream Social

By: Brad Edmondson

Narrated by: Brad Edmondson

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first book to tell the full inside story of the inspiring rise, tragic mistakes, devastating fall, determined recovery, and renewed social contribution and success of one of the most iconic mission-driven companies in the world: Ben & Jerry's. Read more

Fire Base Illingworth

By: Philip Keith

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early morning hours of April 1, 1970, more than four hundred North Vietnamese soldiers charged out into the open and tried to overrun FSB Illingworth. The battle went on, mostly in the dark, for hours. Exposed ammunition canisters were hit and blew up, causing a thunderous explosion inside the FSB that left dust so thick it jammed the... Read more

Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation

By: Chad "Corntassel" Smith

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you want to be successful, it is this simple. Know what you are doing, love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing." -- Will Rogers

When Chad Smith became Principal Chief, the Cherokee Nation was a chaotic and dysfunctional entity. By the end of his tenure, 12 years later, the Nation had grown its assets from $150 million to... Read more

Shooting History - Abridged

By: Jon Snow

Narrated by: Jon Snow

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow’s memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs Read by the author. Jon Snow is perhaps... Read more

Hiroshima et Nagasaki

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Les bombardements de Hiroshima et Nagasaki, qui ont eu lieu à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, consistent en deux attaques des États-Unis sur deux villes du Japon. C'est la première fois dans l'histoire qu'est utilisée la bombe atomique. Les États-Unis avaient demandé au Japon de capituler en juillet 1945, mais le Japon avait refusé. La... Read more

Hitler, une biographie

By: Frédéric Garnier

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Comment un pauvre peintre raté, qui gagnait péniblement de quoi manger en vendant ses tableaux dans la rue, a-t-il pu prendre la tête d'une grande puissance européenne et galvaniser les foules jusqu'à l'impensable ? Comment a-t-il pu s'imposer à une élite politique cultivée jusqu'à transformer les détenteurs du pouvoir en brutes nazies ? De... Read more

The Missile Next Door

By: Gretchen Heefner

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried one thousand Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles in pastures across the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door tells the story of how rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by living with nuclear missiles in their backyards—and what that story... Read more

Price of Prosperity

By: Peter L. Bernstein

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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The House of Morgan

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 34 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as “brilliantly researched and written,” the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms... Read more

The Origins of World War II 3rd Edition

By: Keith Eubank

Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation. In the 3rd edition of this popular volume, Keith Eubank seeks answers to the questions that have plagued us: Why, after the ghastly ordeal of World War I did Western powers undervalue the... Read more

L'art d'être heureux

By: Epicure

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

La Lettre à Ménécée est une lettre écrite par le philosophe Épicure à son disciple Ménécée. Le texte résume la doctrine éthique d'Épicure et propose une méthode pour atteindre le bonheur, en même temps qu'elle en précise les conditions. Avec la Lettre à Hérodote et la Lettre à Pythoclès, la Lettre à Ménécée fait partie des rares textes d'Épicure... Read more

L'homme au masque de fer

By: Frédéric Garnier

Narrated by: Philippe Colin

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

L'homme au masque de fer est l'un des prisonniers les plus fameux de l'histoire française. Le mystère entourant son existence, ainsi que les différents films et romans dont il a fait l'objet, n'ont cessé d'exciter les imaginations. Le point de départ de l'affaire est la mort, le 19 novembre 1703 à la Bastille, au terme d'une longue captivité de... Read more

La Première Guerre Mondiale

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Conflit sans précédent dans l'histoire par son échelle, le nombre de ses morts et l'ampleur des destructions matérielles, la première guerre mondiale (1914-1918) est déclenchée par l'assassinat de l'archiduc François-Ferdinand à Sarajevo le 28 juin 1914. En France, la mobilisation générale est décrétée le 2 août 1914. S'ensuivent quatre années... Read more

Le procès de Nuremberg

By: Frédéric Garnier

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

C'est à Nuremberg, ville des parades nazies sous le IIIème Reich, que furent jugés du 20 novembre 1945 au 30 septembre 1946 les principaux dirigeants de l'Allemagne nazie. Devant le tribunal composé de magistrats représentant les États-Unis, la Grande-Bretagne, l'URSS, et la France, comparaissaient 21 accusés. Hitler s'est suicidé, ainsi que... Read more

Out of the Depths

By: Israel Meir Lau

Narrated by: Steve Blane

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest
survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp was liberated
in 1945. Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to
become Chief Rabbi of Israel--and like many of the great rabbis, Lau is a
master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing, miraculous, and
... Read more

La bataille de Normandie

By: John Mac

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Le 6 juin 1944, 150 000 hommes débarquent sur les plages de Normandie. C'est alors que débute la bataille de Normandie : l'une des grandes batailles du 20e siècle. Elle s'achève 84 jours après, le 29 août 1944. Le bilan de la bataille de Normandie est terrible. Les Alliés comptent 37 000 tués et 172 000 blessés. Côté allemand, 50 000 tués, 80... Read more